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Demitria Monde Thraam tells the story of her experience with heroin at Randomonium today as an observation of World AIDS Day. Don't know where this page will go tomorrow, but I hope she preserves it (she did, the permanent URL is http://involution.org/gettingthepoint.html). She is living proof that harm reduction policies save lives. Without methadone, she'd be dead today. [randomonium]
Heroin is overrated. It is a terribly dull drug compared to most others. Anyone who refers to its effects as "like an orgasm" either is lying and has never actually used the stuff, or else gets some vastly weird effects from it for some reason. Or else has very sleepy orgasms.It feels nice at first, yeah. And it always feels good to stop being ill. But it's a nothing drug, that's its nature. It doesn't do anything but make it so you see less and feel less. And soon, of course, be less.
Harry Browne at WorldNetDaily - The president's first day in office: Harry reiterates some really good ideas for a president with cojones and principles. Won't see that this year, just the normal socialist leader, be it Gush or Bore.
No president since the 1950s has proposed a single budget that would reduce the size of the federal government. And when Congress has come back with even larger budgets, no president has vetoed them.Every president who claimed to be against big government has had that veto at his disposal, but none thought enough of your freedom to use it.
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And when we achieved this, we'd have a celebration. Do you remember the German youths who tore down the Berlin Wall and sold pieces of it to us?
Well, we would tear down the IRS building and sell the pieces -- and use the proceeds to help IRS agents find honest work.
Joseph Farah at WorldNetDaily - What I would do as new president: not quite as generous an agenda as Harry's, but still lots of good ideas. Close down just about every federal agency. [wnd]
From unknown:
Personally I would be happy to call George W. Bush 'President' if he and all his supporters would simply admit that his winning was nothing more than a statistical fluke, a victory by far, far less than the margin of error, and a function of random chance. Let's just get that out in the open and let him lead the country knowing that a butterfly's wings in the Amazonian jungle made the difference, and stop pretending that it was some massive movement by the American people. --Charles Basner
NetTelligence - If Architects Had to Work Like Web Programmers: or any programmers, for that matter. Hehe. [picks]
There's a new article in The Libertarian series by Vin Suprynowicz:
- Mr. Gore wants 10,000 invalid ballots counted ... for him -
Gore is happy to recount ballots in democratic counties, but won't
allow the counting of thousands of military ballots, supposedly
because they were not postmarked, but really because he knows they
will add to GW's lead.
To say that there are 10,000 ballots in south Florida which have "never been counted" implies some evil Republican operative has salted away boxes containing that many unopened, unexamined ballots in some cellar or swamp. In fact, the Gore forces have requested recounts only in heavily Democratic counties, where local election officials are almost entirely members of Mr. Gore's own party. The ballots in question have been run twice through their counting machines and rejected. The Democratic canvassing board in Dade County then voted unanimously not to count those ballots a third time -- that is, not to play Karnak the Magnificent, holding them up to their turbaned foreheads and trying to psychically divine each anonymous voter's "intent."
